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<span id="s-the-django-admin-documentation-generator"></span><span id="module-django.contrib.admindocs"></span><span id="the-django-admin-documentation-generator"></span><h1>The Django admin documentation generator<a class="headerlink" href="#module-django.contrib.admindocs" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>Django’s <a class="reference internal" href="#module-django.contrib.admindocs" title="django.contrib.admindocs: Django's admin documentation generator."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">admindocs</span></code></a> app pulls documentation from the
docstrings of models, views, template tags, and template filters for any app in
<a class="reference internal" href="../../settings.html#std:setting-INSTALLED_APPS"><code class="xref std std-setting docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">INSTALLED_APPS</span></code></a> and makes that documentation available from the
<a class="reference internal" href="index.html#module-django.contrib.admin" title="django.contrib.admin: Django's admin site."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Django</span> <span class="pre">admin</span></code></a>.</p>
<div class="section" id="s-overview">
<span id="overview"></span><h2>Overview<a class="headerlink" href="#overview" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>To activate the <a class="reference internal" href="#module-django.contrib.admindocs" title="django.contrib.admindocs: Django's admin documentation generator."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">admindocs</span></code></a>, you will need to do
the following:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Add <a class="reference internal" href="#module-django.contrib.admindocs" title="django.contrib.admindocs: Django's admin documentation generator."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">django.contrib.admindocs</span></code></a> to your <a class="reference internal" href="../../settings.html#std:setting-INSTALLED_APPS"><code class="xref std std-setting docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">INSTALLED_APPS</span></code></a>.</li>
<li>Add <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">url(r'^admin/doc/',</span> <span class="pre">include('django.contrib.admindocs.urls'))</span></code> to
your <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">urlpatterns</span></code>. Make sure it’s included <em>before</em> the
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">r'^admin/'</span></code> entry, so that requests to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">/admin/doc/</span></code> don’t get
handled by the latter entry.</li>
<li>Install the docutils Python module (<a class="reference external" href="http://docutils.sf.net/">http://docutils.sf.net/</a>).</li>
<li><strong>Optional:</strong> Using the admindocs bookmarklets requires
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">django.contrib.admindocs.middleware.XViewMiddleware</span></code> to be installed.</li>
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<p>Once those steps are complete, you can start browsing the documentation by
going to your admin interface and clicking the “Documentation” link in the
upper right of the page.</p>
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<span id="documentation-helpers"></span><h2>Documentation helpers<a class="headerlink" href="#documentation-helpers" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>The following special markup can be used in your docstrings to easily create
hyperlinks to other components:</p>
<table class="docutils">
<colgroup>
<col width="31%" />
<col width="69%" />
</colgroup>
<thead valign="bottom">
<tr class="row-odd"><th class="head">Django Component</th>
<th class="head">reStructuredText roles</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody valign="top">
<tr class="row-even"><td>Models</td>
<td><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">:model:`app_label.ModelName`</span></code></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td>Views</td>
<td><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">:view:`app_label.view_name`</span></code></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td>Template tags</td>
<td><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">:tag:`tagname`</span></code></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td>Template filters</td>
<td><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">:filter:`filtername`</span></code></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td>Templates</td>
<td><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">:template:`path/to/template.html`</span></code></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
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<div class="section" id="s-model-reference">
<span id="model-reference"></span><h2>Model reference<a class="headerlink" href="#model-reference" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>The <strong>models</strong> section of the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">admindocs</span></code> page describes each model in the
system along with all the fields and methods available on it. Relationships
to other models appear as hyperlinks. Descriptions are pulled from <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">help_text</span></code>
attributes on fields or from docstrings on model methods.</p>
<p>A model with useful documentation might look like this:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">class</span> <span class="nc">BlogEntry</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">models</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">Model</span><span class="p">):</span>
    <span class="sd">&quot;&quot;&quot;</span>
<span class="sd">    Stores a single blog entry, related to :model:`blog.Blog` and</span>
<span class="sd">    :model:`auth.User`.</span>
<span class="sd">    &quot;&quot;&quot;</span>
    <span class="n">slug</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">models</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">SlugField</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">help_text</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;A short label, generally used in URLs.&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
    <span class="n">author</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">models</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ForeignKey</span><span class="p">(</span>
        <span class="n">User</span><span class="p">,</span>
        <span class="n">models</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">SET_NULL</span><span class="p">,</span>
        <span class="n">blank</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="kc">True</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">null</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="kc">True</span><span class="p">,</span>
    <span class="p">)</span>
    <span class="n">blog</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">models</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ForeignKey</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">Blog</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">models</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">CASCADE</span><span class="p">)</span>
    <span class="o">...</span>

    <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">publish</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">):</span>
        <span class="sd">&quot;&quot;&quot;Makes the blog entry live on the site.&quot;&quot;&quot;</span>
        <span class="o">...</span>
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<span id="view-reference"></span><h2>View reference<a class="headerlink" href="#view-reference" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Each URL in your site has a separate entry in the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">admindocs</span></code> page, and
clicking on a given URL will show you the corresponding view. Helpful things
you can document in your view function docstrings include:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>A short description of what the view does.</li>
<li>The <strong>context</strong>, or a list of variables available in the view’s template.</li>
<li>The name of the template or templates that are used for that view.</li>
</ul>
<p>For example:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">django.shortcuts</span> <span class="k">import</span> <span class="n">render</span>

<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">myapp.models</span> <span class="k">import</span> <span class="n">MyModel</span>

<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">my_view</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">request</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">slug</span><span class="p">):</span>
    <span class="sd">&quot;&quot;&quot;</span>
<span class="sd">    Display an individual :model:`myapp.MyModel`.</span>

<span class="sd">    **Context**</span>

<span class="sd">    ``mymodel``</span>
<span class="sd">        An instance of :model:`myapp.MyModel`.</span>

<span class="sd">    **Template:**</span>

<span class="sd">    :template:`myapp/my_template.html`</span>
<span class="sd">    &quot;&quot;&quot;</span>
    <span class="n">context</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">{</span><span class="s1">&#39;mymodel&#39;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">MyModel</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">objects</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">get</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">slug</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">slug</span><span class="p">)}</span>
    <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">render</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">request</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">&#39;myapp/my_template.html&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">context</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<span id="template-tags-and-filters-reference"></span><h2>Template tags and filters reference<a class="headerlink" href="#template-tags-and-filters-reference" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>The <strong>tags</strong> and <strong>filters</strong> <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">admindocs</span></code> sections describe all the tags and
filters that come with Django (in fact, the <a class="reference internal" href="../../templates/builtins.html#ref-templates-builtins-tags"><span class="std std-ref">built-in tag reference</span></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="../../templates/builtins.html#ref-templates-builtins-filters"><span class="std std-ref">built-in filter reference</span></a> documentation come directly from those
pages). Any tags or filters that you create or are added by a third-party app
will show up in these sections as well.</p>
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<span id="template-reference"></span><h2>Template reference<a class="headerlink" href="#template-reference" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>While <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">admindocs</span></code> does not include a place to document templates by
themselves, if you use the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">:template:`path/to/template.html`</span></code> syntax in a
docstring the resulting page will verify the path of that template with
Django’s <a class="reference internal" href="../../templates/api.html#template-loaders"><span class="std std-ref">template loaders</span></a>. This can be a handy way to
check if the specified template exists and to show where on the filesystem that
template is stored.</p>
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<span id="s-admindocs-bookmarklets"></span><span id="included-bookmarklets"></span><span id="admindocs-bookmarklets"></span><h2>Included Bookmarklets<a class="headerlink" href="#included-bookmarklets" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>One bookmarklet is available from the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">admindocs</span></code> page:</p>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>Documentation for this page</dt>
<dd>Jumps you from any page to the documentation for the view that generates
that page.</dd>
</dl>
<p>Using this bookmarklet requires that <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">XViewMiddleware</span></code> is installed and that
you are logged into the <a class="reference internal" href="index.html#module-django.contrib.admin" title="django.contrib.admin: Django's admin site."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Django</span> <span class="pre">admin</span></code></a> as a
<a class="reference internal" href="../auth.html#django.contrib.auth.models.User" title="django.contrib.auth.models.User"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">User</span></code></a> with
<a class="reference internal" href="../auth.html#django.contrib.auth.models.User.is_staff" title="django.contrib.auth.models.User.is_staff"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">is_staff</span></code></a> set to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">True</span></code>.</p>
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